Sunderland are lucky that the teams at the bottom aint winning..

Sami Hyypia's decade of service at Liverpool Football Club will end this summer when he joins Bayer Leverkusen on a two-year deal.
Hyypia underwent a medical with the German outfit this morning and will link up with his new teammates in the summer for the start of pre-season training.

The Finnish international has earned legendary status at Anfield for the part he has played in the club's many successes over the past decade - and he will leave Merseyside with the best wishes of every Liverpool supporter.

It's hard to believe he cost the Reds just £2.5million from Dutch outfit Willem II back in May 1999.

After making his Reds debut against Sheffield Wednesday on August 7, 1999, Hyypia quickly formed a watertight partnership with Stephane Henchoz, providing the foundation for a historic treble in 2000-01.

The centre-half wore the captain's armband through much of this momentous campaign in the absence of the injured Jamie Redknapp. He jointly lifted both the UEFA and FA Cups.

Following the departure of Redknapp in April 2002, Gerard Houllier handed his trusty defender the captaincy on a permanent basis, though he'd be replaced by the emerging Steven Gerrard in October 2003.

With the arrival of new boss Rafa Benitez in 2004 came numerous personnel changes, though it was clear Hyypia was going nowhere.

However, he did have a new central-defensive partner in Jamie Carragher, who was at last given a regular slot in his preferred position. Within 12 months they were regarded as one of the most formidable pairings on the continent following Liverpool's Champions League triumph in the Ataturk.

Hyypia scored one of the most memorable goals en route to Istanbul, an unstoppable volley to open the scoring against Juve in the quarter-finals.

Incredibly, he played every minute of 57 consecutive European games for the Reds from November 2001 to February 2006.

The arrival of young centre-halves Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel provided competition for places as Hyypia entered his twilight but, despite sometimes missing out, he continued to climb the club's all-time appearance table. In December 2008 he overtook Ron Yeats to enter the top 20.

History will undoubtedly judge the big Finn to be one of the club's shrewdest pieces of business - and possibly the best pound for pound signing ever to arrive at Anfield.


:sad: He will be missed.

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling: NOOOOO!!!

We need some new players, big time! Our defence has been best in the world past ten years...

I remember back in 2000 when we was playing against Barca at the Nou Camp and they was attacking non stop, shot after shot, wave of attack after huge wave of attack.. And they never scored!
Our defence troops did good that night.

Hypia was so quality in his time )=

Possibly the only Liverpool player i like.

Aww i thought he would stay at liverpool until he quit :sad:

Man U is going down this week. 3-0 Arsenal

YES AMA

We Will Win!

Damn right.

Come on villa!

Yey:

Villa 1 - 0 Hull.

Fek! I want Hull to win... Push Newcastle down, give them a flippin wake up call!
If they went down they would come back up and be in the Prem 2010/11 season, after England win the world Cup.. :tongue:

Noo, Hull need to lose to save Sunderland's bacon.

Stuuuuupid Hull, they could have gone 6pts above Newcastle.. Daft poo heads. :bored:

Aston Villa can win every match now, they ent getting better than 5th place :spin2:

Am expecting hull maybe to go down after a great start this season.

Don't worry, I'll go in goal for Newc with my biiig hands. :bawling:
PS. I asked my bf if he thought my hands were big and he said they weren't, so boo hoo you poo.

FULL TIME:

Villa 1 - 0 Hull

He would say that... He used sugar drops to give you the truth.. The truth and the "truth"...


:pat:

Still tight at the bottom, fair to say that West Brom have gone.

Tonights game is great news for the north east..

Midfielder Joey Barton has been suspended by Newcastle.

Barton was sent off for a lunging tackle on Xabi Alonso in the defeat at Liverpool on Sunday - a challenge boss Alan Shearer described as "stupid."

And a newspaper report has since suggested the 26-year-old was involved in a row with Shearer after the game.

A Magpies statement said: "Joey Barton has been suspended from the club until further notice. The club will be making no further comment at this time."

Barton's red card means he would have missed Newcastle's final three games of the season because of an automatic Football Association ban.

Ribéry to Man United for £63m? :whistle:

Arsenal have no chance tonight, even if they win 2-1 they are out!

I can't stand Man Utd, vile club and players, VILE! But they will be too much for Arsenal tonight... Hope i am wrong!

Arsenal will smash it tonight we have Van Persie back, probably not 100% but anyones better than bendtnar.


As for the ribery.

http://www.e-soccer.com/news/news_f.aspx?CategoryID=451

And Fabregas again Barca and Real hassling him, he said back in january or whenever when he got the captains armband that he was staying at Arsenal for many seasons to come.

In february said how he could say he isnt going to move all he wanted and the papers would still say that he was leaving but again he said i am not moving.


Now...

Link : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo....html?ITO=1490

Well done Fabregas, Adebayor may be leaving though.

We'll just buy Villa is Adebayor leaves.

Villa is moving to the North West, Cheshire area... He is already a Liverpool player!

Arsenal could buy Barton.

LOL

Liverpool will need to make a bid soon as they havent made one for him since almost start of the season.


Ohh and didnt realise, "Arsenal haven't conceeded a goal at the Emirates stadium in the champions league this season."

tonights score

Prediction

Arsenal 1 - 0 Man Utd (Arsenal through on penalties)
Arsenal 2 - 0 Man Uts ( Arsenal go through on aggregate)